Jurassic Park

Sunday 19th July 2009
Day 22

We head to the canopy skywalk (the longest in South East Asia) on an elevated footbridge which was a little precarious pulled together with wood and rope and not without a few cracks.

There were 16 in total and the experience of being raised into the jungle canopy like that was a total different experience to being on the forest floor in terms of the things that you can see.

The afternoon was taken up with a tour of Deer Cave. Our guide was a reincarnation of Stece Irwin, this time as a female Malaysian who loved talking about survival instincts out in the jungle with nothing but nature at your disposal.

We saw some stalagmite stalogtite action in a smaller cave with the highlight or lowlight being a German lady smacking her head off a low-lying one. It was a fair crack - she nearly went down. We then went to Deer Cave, famous from Planet Earth as the place with the bat crap. Three million bats habitat in there and there was mountains of their doings all over the cave which in turn are habitated by lots of creatures who never see light of day.

For us the cave though the cave itself was mindblowing. At its highest point its 180 metres and claims to be the biggest cave in the world. The idea was to then exit cave and watch the bats swarm out of the cave in a mass exodus to get a dusk feeding. Unfortunately for us though a tropical downpour meant the bats weren't playing ball tonight.

across a long wooden footbridge in the morning.